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Whee~. After taking a couple hours to read through photoshop tutorials on proper line art coloring, I went all out with testing them. I made a line art for a human version of Red XIII from Final Fantasy VII, and decided to color it. The coloring went from simple to extreme. I had also intended to just do a normal head with no background, but that looked so boring. I took a stab at making it somewhat like a Native American canvas look, with the original Red XIII in the background.

Good lord, I've been doing photoshop the extremely hard, unpretty way. This did take a very long time to do, (Five hours!!!) but it was nowhere near as aggravating to finish as it would have been if I did it all on one layer as I've previously done.

I really wish Red XIII / Nanaki got more attention. Aside from Vincent Valentine, he was always in my party. I just love his lines, and he's so fun to watch in battle. So I wondered to myself, 'what would he look like if he were human?' Here's my depiction of him. I made him young, becaue if you remember the story, he's about 16 in human standards. Gaahhh~~. I'm so very, very happy.

When I first attempted this, Photoshop went crazy on me, and I lost everything I hadn't saved... But I tried again, all day today, and I'm extremely pleased with the results.